Misericordia U. offers academic camps for high school juniors, seniors

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Mar 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Misericordia University in Dallas is offering high school juniors and seniors eight Career Exploration Camps in June.

Misericordia University in Dallas is offering high school juniors and seniors eight Career Exploration Camps in June.

The Career Exploration Camps are a popular destination for students who want to explore both college campus life and a potential career. The university offers camps in nursing, business, teacher education, communications and media, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, literature, and chemistry-biochemistry sciences. Space is limited in each camp and registration is necessary.

Camps held June 23 to 25

The Chemistry-Biochemistry Sciences Camp allows students to explore careers in forensic science, alternative energy and pharmaceutical industry. Cost is $90. For more information or to register, contact Anna Fedor at 570-674-6769 or afedor@misericordia.edu. The Nursing Pre-College Camp enables students to learn about nursing in a mixture of clinical, laboratory, classroom and field experiences. They gain hands-on experience in the simulation laboratory, meet with nursing faculty and students and tour clinical sites. Cost is $90. The camp is limited to 20 students. For more information, contact Kathleen Devine Gelso at 570-674-6373 or kgelso@misericordia.edu. To register, visit misericordia.edu/nursingcamp. The Teacher Education Camp introduces future teachers to methods and strategies that real educators use to make learning fun and to meet the diverse needs of all learners. Cost is $75. For more information or to register, contact Rose Hometchko at rhometch@misericordia.edu or call 570-674-6270. The Occupational Therapy Camp gives students an opportunity to meet faculty and students in the major and tour clinical sites so they can observe inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services, hospital treatments and pediatric services. Cost is $90. For more information, contact Debbie Carey at dcarey3@misericordia.edu. To register online, visit misericordia.edu/ot and click on Career Exploration Camp.

Camps held June 23 to 26

The Future Business Executives Camp at the Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Education, is a four-day, three-night interactive camp for students wanting to learn more about the fundamentals of economics and entrepreneurship. Participants attended lectures by local business leaders and executives who will share their thoughts on industry standards, innovations and expectations for new employees entering their fields. Cost is $100. For more information or to register, visit misericordia.edu/ceee or contact Robert Williams at 570-674-6777 or rwilliam@misericordia.edu. The Communications and Media Camp offers students the opportunity to create a television magazine show, learn studio and field production techniques, write newspaper feature stories and design a full-color newspaper. Afterward, they receive copies of their media products as their first entries into their pre-professional media portfolios. The camp is guided by members of the Department of Communications who have decades of professional experience in television, radio, and print and broadcast journalism. Cost is $90. For more information or to register, contact Melissa Sgroi at 570-674-6744 or msgroi@misericordia.edu. The Speech-Language Pathology Camp helps students to become familiar with the field of speech-language pathology. Speech-language pathologists are employed in schools, hospitals, nursing care facilities, home health care settings, outpatient care centers, day care centers for children and institutions of higher education. Cost is $85. For more information or to register, contact Donna DiBlasi at 570-674-6724 or ddiblasi@misericordia.edu. The Literature Camp consists of workshop settings including: creative writing, literary adaptation, literature and pop culture and literature in the multi-media age. The camp explores literature from around the world, including American, multi-ethnic and English literature, and looks at its use in popular culture, such as Shakespeare in films. Cost is $85. For more information or to register, contact Rebecca Steinberger at 570-674-6423 or rsteinbe@misericordia.edu.